Anton Cheykin
Environment 3D artist
Ground Blending
I wanted to try a vertex blending scheme based on height for quite some time and I finally found a courage to do it.
This is a UE4 shade that blends 3 texture sets based on the height range (vertex color channel) and also puddles (you can paint those with alpha vertex channel)
All materials were made in Substance Designer.
UE4 vertex blending, uses only one rgb channel for both ground and grass (height dependent)
Vertex alpha channel for puddles.
this one rendered in marmoset
Ground blending UE4
Water looks shitty I know
the vertex blending is not very dependent on the polygon density